Daily News Summary
Friday, 5 June 2009
Main stories
`Blunders that left a sadist free to lead an "orgy of bloodletting"'
After revelations about the supervision of a man convicted of murdering two students the victims' families wish to prosecute the authorities over `systematic failings by the Probation Service, courts and police'.
Times4, DMail1, Sun8, Mirr1, DTel1, Gdn1, Ind12, DExp12
`Probation officer had three times average caseload'
A background analysis of the London probation failings includes comments from Phil Wheatley, head of the National Offender Management Service, and Harry Fletcher of the National Association of Probation Officers.
Times6
`What has happened to our boys?'
The mothers of the murdered students describe the impact.
Times22
`The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ Be part of the solution'
A full page advert calls for pledges of support for a new strategy to reduce work-related death, injury and ill-health.
Times34, Mirr30, DTel14, Gdn16, Ind22.
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Other stories
`Police "targeting youths to get DNA"'
Claims are being made that police are making arrests to obtain DNA samples, provoking a denial from the Metropolitan Police.
DTel8
`The smooth assassin'
James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, adds to the toll of ministerial resignations.
Gdn1, Sun1, Times1, DExp1
`New powers to tackle filesharing'
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham gets tough on persistent illegal filesharers.
Gdn15
`Life for serial sex attacker left to stalk streets by police errors'
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating errors in the police response to offences by a man given a life sentence yesterday.
Gdn17, Ind16, DExp31, Mirr 25
Comment, editorials, letters
`Final Straw'
According to the Sun, the failings of probation are an example showing that little of the money spent on the public services has reached the front line.
Sun6
`National shame of our justice system'
The Mail says that a new government is required to `clear up the mess that Labour has made of the criminal justice system'.
DMail14
`Let beasts die in jail'
The Mirror says that life should mean life.
Mirr10
`The Baby P of probation'
Rod Morgan former HM Chief Inspector of Probation writes about the background to the London murders.
Gdn35
`Overstretched and unfairly blamed'
The Independent comments on the responsibilities of government, police, probation and magistrates in shaping the prologue to the murders.
Ind34
`The terrible injustice of evil triumphing over good'
The Daily Express asks if life sentences with tariffs of many years will really turn out to last that long.
DExp10
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